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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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